Mary E. Hutchinson: The Absence of an Oeuvre Public
Turner, Jae (2012)
Abstract
Abstract
Mary E. Hutchinson: The Absence of an Oeuvre
This dissertation brings scholarly attention to the artist Mary E.
Hutchinson (1906-1970),
who is unknown today even though she achieved critical recognition
and produced a
significant body of work during the mid-twentieth century in the
United States. Through
a genealogical approach informed by feminist and queer theories,
this dissertation
excavates the gap between the material traces of Hutchinson's life
and the invisibility of
her body of work today. That gap emerges, retrospectively, as the
space that separates
Hutchinson's lived experience from the dominant narratives through
which the histories
of modern art and feminism are written. This project's
interdisciplinary exploration of
that space reveals it to be - not a void - but the site of a
complex play between
intelligibility and unintelligibility. Thus this scholarship not
only draws attention to an
unknown artist's work and life, but also reshapes our understanding
of art and politics in
the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Limits of Gender and Sexuality in Art History and Biography
1
Chapter 1
"Atlanta Girl" Winning Fame in New York
34
Chapter 2
An
Independent
Woman
Artist
72
Chapter 3
Queering
Kitsch
106
Chapter 4
Unintelligible
Recovery
152
Conclusion
An Artist's Anecdote and a Death
Without
Cause
187
Bibliography
200
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